Pathways #4 (PFRPG)

Find the Rite Path!

Rite Publishing continues its free e-zine with templates, new monsters, domains, feats, encounters, and reviews all bundled together with a Greg A. Vaughn (Pathfinder Chronicles: Into the Darklands and Slumbering Tsar) interview about Tome of Horrors Complete!

You'll also find articles by Jonathan McNulty (Coliseum Morpheuon), T. H. Gulliver (#30 Haunts for Ships and Shores), and Steven D. Russell (Book of Monster Templates). In addition, you will find the top reviews of the best third party products by Endzeitgeist, Dark Mistress, and Shane O' Conner. Plus an Interview with Illustrator Rowena Aitken and book review of Clinton J. Boomer's The Hole Behind Midnight!

This pdf is 51 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, 20 pages of advertisement, leaving 28 pages of free content, so what exactly do we get? This issue is all about the chaos, kicking off with another great template b [...]

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